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  • Wuthering Heights Essays

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    Love In Wuthering Heights Essay The story of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has been one of the most influential and powerful piece of literature ever written. After being published, it garnered a lot of interest because of the theme that was deemed misleading and critically unfit for society. The main theme of the… 1 678…

  • D.B Caulfield

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    D.B. Caulfield is the eldest son in the family. He has a talent of a writer but has decided to sell his work for Hollywood movies. Holden criticizes D.B. for being a sell-out. However, Holden does respect his brother calling him the best writer. Also, D.B. was taken to the Army and stayed there for…

  • The Magic Mountain Summary

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    The story starts at the beginning of the XX century, in the last peaceful years before the beginning of the First World War. The action takes place in the peaceful corner of Switzerland, near Davos, in the fancy tuberculous sanatorium of Berggof. The main hero of the story, a young man from Germany named Hans…

  • Lord of the Flies Summary

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    Plot Overview In one of the countries, there was a nuclear explosion. A group of teenagers who were taken to evacuation was on a desert island. Ralph and the boy, nicknamed Piggy, find a large shell. They call all the guys. The boys are from three to fourteen years old. They choose a “leader.” Ralph…

  • The Return of the Native Summary

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    The main character of the novel is the attractive and daydreaming Eustacia Vye who is nineteen years old at the beginning of the plot. She is known as the “Queen of the Night” and her wish is to find a man who will fall madly in love with her and fulfill her quench of wanderlust.…

  • Adele Varens

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    Adèle is Jane’s pupil at Thornfield, a little French girl just under ten years old, the daughter of Céline Varens who is an opera dancer who was Rochester’s love sometime ago. When Jane first meets her, Adèle’s only been in England for a few months, and she’s never really been asked to study or apply…

  • Roderick Usher

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    Roderick is portrayed as a man who suffers from constant fear. This feeling triggers his internal troubles and worries. He is afraid that one day this fear will kill him. Indeed, it is what happened to him at the very end of the story. His supernatural connection with sister Madeline is not ordinary. He cannot…

  • Mr. Gabriel John Utterson

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    Mr. Utterson is a notary, whose stern face is never covered with a smile. He was a self-contained man, taciturn and awkward in society, lean, dusty, boring, and very likable as well. In the circle of friends, and especially when he liked the wine, a spark of soft humanity began to glow in his eyes, which didn’t…

  • Animal Farm Essays

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    Animal Farm When George Orwell wrote his allegorical novel about the Russian Revolution and the events occurring afterward, Animal Farm, in 1945, he could not have guessed that only a scant few years later, the country would be in a McCarthyist rage about communism and socialism in all forms. Even so… 1 607 words George…

  • All the Pretty Horses Summary

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    All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy describes the events that are experienced by the 16-year-old John Grady after he sets out on an aimless journey on the back of a horse. The scene starts off with John’s grandfather’s funeral in the year 1949. Tragedy strikes immediately after this death as John’s father falls seriously…